Coopetortillas
Sodas & Local Food · Guanacaste · Breakfast and lunch
A women's cooperative about 500 m from Santa Cruz's main park that has cooked traditional Guanacaste food over a nearly 5-meter wood stove for decades - hand-patted corn tortillas, rice-and-corn soup and tripe soup at very low prices.
- Hours
- Daily from 5:00 to about 15:00 (Voz de Guanacaste, 2015 - confirm by phone)
Dishes to try
arroz de maíz (Sundays) · sopa de mondongo (Fridays) · gallo pinto with handmade tortillas · casado · rosquillas and tanelas
Prices (as published)
| Arroz de maíz / sopa de mondongo | ₡2,000 (2015) |
| Breakfast pinto with tortillas, eggs and coffee | ₡2,500 (2015) |
Contact & directions
- Phone: 2680-0688
- Location: 10.25665, -85.58554 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Parque Bernabela Ramos (Santa Cruz)Park · FreeThe shady central plaza of Santa Cruz, best known for its domed stone kiosk carved with Chorotega-style motifs.
- Parroquia Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (Santa Cruz)Landmark · FreeSanta Cruz's parish church holds the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas, a dark crucifix that draws pilgrims every January; the old pink bell tower stands beside the modern church.
- Plaza Los Mangos (Santa Cruz)Park · FreeThe square also known as Plaza López, in Costa Rica's 'folklore city', where the wooden bullring and grandstands go up every January for the Fiestas de Santa Cruz in honor of the Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.
- Guaitil Pottery VillageLocal shop · FreeA village where families still make Chorotega-style pottery by hand — coiled, burnished with stones, painted with natural clay pigments and fired in wood kilns — and sell it from their front porches.
- Humedal Lacustrino Río CañasNature spotA protected wetland created in 1994, managed by the Tempisque Conservation Area.
- Parque Nacional Diriá (ranger station)Park · hidden gemA little-visited forest park south of Santa Cruz in the Nicoya Peninsula highlands, with tropical and cloud forest, deep river valleys and a ranger station that starts two trails, one to the seasonal Brasil waterfall.